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User ID: 31625165 Belgium 01/10/2013 03:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Statewide quake in California may be possible after all For decades, scientists have assumed the central portion of California's San Andreas fault acts as a barrier that prevents a big quake in the southern part of the state from spreading to the north, and vice versa. As a result, a mega-quake that could be felt from San Diego to San Francisco was widely considered impossible. But that key fault segment might not serve as a barrier in all cases, researchers wrote Wednesday in the online edition of the journal Nature. Using a combination of laboratory measurements and computer simulations, the two scientists showed how so-called creeping segments in a fault — long thought to be benign because they slip slowly and steadily along as tectonic plates shift — might behave like locked segments, which build up stress over time and then rupture. Such a snap caused the 9.0-magnitude Tohoku-Oki earthquake that hit Japan in 2011, triggering a tsunami, killing nearly 16,000 people and destroying the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Forecasters had not believed such a large quake was possible there. [ link to www.latimes.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 2731277 United States 01/10/2013 03:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Statewide quake in California may be possible after all I was watching the local news this morning and what do I see - they are now warning us to a quake that my appear and said that the Japan quake last year should of caught our attention and made us all be prepare. (Now they are saying something about it)! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 2731277 United States 01/10/2013 03:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Statewide quake in California may be possible after all Here is the link to this morning news warning us : [ link to ktla.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 2731277 United States 01/10/2013 03:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Statewide quake in California may be possible after all
“We’re realizing we need to worry more about these things we’ve been calling barriers,” he said, adding that the Tohoku-Oki quake wasn’t the only recent disaster making researchers reconsider fault segments once thought to be “toothless” — temblors in the Indian Ocean, Chile, Haiti and China had also given pause. “The more big earthquakes we’ve seen around the world, the more we’ve realized that there are some deficiencies in our models,” he said. “Everyone’s taking a second look at what we thought was worst-case.” Hudnut emphasized that an extreme quake powerful enough to blast through the supposedly stable midsection of the San Andreas was unlikely. But if one did strike, he said, it might put unexpected strain on California’s emergency response systems. Planners had always assumed that responders from one part of the state would be available to supply aid in the other. -Los Angeles Times Read more at [ link to ktla.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 2731277 United States 01/10/2013 03:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Statewide quake in California may be possible after all Great Find OP! Hope this gets pinned for updates |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 17399035 United States 01/11/2013 12:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Statewide quake in California may be possible after all [ link to www.quakeprediction.com] That's the California Earthquake Risk Prediction link |